Delineation of Alteration Zones Based on Wavelet Neural Network (WNN) and Concentration–Volume (C-V) Fractal Methods in the Hypogene Zone of Porphyry Copper Deposit, Shahr-e-Babak District, SE Iran

سال انتشار: 1399
محل انتشار: مجله معدن و محیط زیست، دوره: 11، شماره: 4
کد COI اختصاصی: JR_JMAE-11-4_017
زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
تعداد مشاهده: 281

نویسندگان

Department of Mining and Metallurgy Engineering, Amirkabir University of technology, Tehran, Iran

چکیده

In this paper, we aim to achieve two specific objectives. The first one is to examine the applicability of wavelet neural network (WNN) technique in ore grade estimation, which is based on integration between wavelet theory and Artificial Neural Network (ANN). Different wavelets are applied as activation functions to estimate Cu grade of borehole data in the hypogene zone of porphyry ore deposit, Shahr-e-Babak district, SE Iran. WNN parameters such as dilation and translation are fixed and only the weights of the network are optimized during its learning process. The efficacy of this type of network in function learning and estimation is compared with Ordinary Kriging (OK). Secondly, we aim to delineate the potassic and phyllic alteration regions in the hypogene zone of Cu porphyry deposit based on the estimation obtained of WNN and OK methods, and utilize Concentration–Volume (C–V) fractal model. In this regard, at first C–V log–log plots are generated based on the results of OK and WNN. The plots then are used to determine the Cu threshold values of the alteration zones. To investigate the correlation between geological model and C-V fractal results, the log ratio matrix is applied. The results showed that, Cu values less than ۱.۱% from WNN have more overlapped voxels with phyllic alteration zone by overall accuracy (OA) of ۰.۷۴. Spatial correlation between the potassic alteration zones resulted from ۳D geological modeling and high concentration zones in C-V fractal model showed that the alteration zone has Cu values between ۱.۱% and ۲.۲% with OA of ۰.۷۲ and finally have an appropriate overlap with Cu values greater than ۲.۲% with OA of ۰.۷. Generally, the results showed that the WNN (Morlet activation function) with OA greater than OK can be can be a suitable and robust tool for quantitative modeling of alteration zones, instead of qualitative methods.

کلیدواژه ها

Alteration, Ordinary Kriging, C-V fractal model, Wavelet Neural Network, Shahr-e-Babak

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